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Along with Picasso, Gris, Bonnard and the others who form a pantheon of figures in France's most prolific age of painting, the directors of the Modern Museum have sent us a sampling of canvasses by younger painters of more recent vintage...
Klee is there, of course, as sensitive and witty as ever, and Juan Gris, as richly controlled as always. Chagall is represented at his most fanciful and most substantial, Braque displays his talent for being perennially so very right, and Rouault, as usual, exhibits as much profundity in a landscape as in a crucifixion. It is good to see less exhibited figures such as Villon and Masson included, though Miro, Leger, Mondrian and the sculptor Lipschitz receive perhaps less than their...
...first half of the 20th century shakes down into perspective, it seems certain that the art contribution of the Spanish contingent will bulk surprisingly large. Top banana of the bunch is, of course, Pablo Picasso. But there are also Juan Gris, pioneer Sculptor-Welder Julio González, Surrealists Joán Miró and Salvador Dali. And now another name is being nominated for the list: the late Manuel Martinez Hugué (1872-1945), better known simply as Manolo, whose small-scale bronzes and terra-cotta sculptures are the most earthy and most intensely Spanish art works...
...cubist Art Dealer Henry Kahnweiler, who still today says of Sculptor Manolo: "I think he was greater than Maillol." Manolo discovered the charms of the small town of Céret near the Spanish border, and was soon surrounded by vacationing Montmartre friends, including Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris. But though living in the midst of early cubist experiments-French critics called Céret "the Barbizon of cubism"-Manolo would have none of it, once snapped at Picasso, then at work on his cubist Accordionist: "What would you say, Picasso, if your parents were to come to fetch...
...pilot boat in the chilling waters of the English Channel, Danish-born Greta Anderson Sonnichsen, 30, now a California housewife, showed more speed and stamina than any of the other 23 men and women entered in the international mass swim from France to England. She made it from Cape Gris-Nez to the cliffs of Dover in 13 hr. 53 min. More than two hours later, Britain's Kenneth Wray staggered ashore. No other swimmer even finished...